Another important fact here is that ActBlue isn't even a "PAC", it's a credit-card processing organization, which handles the details of donors for you.

Basically it's *exactly* like Patreon but for political organizations. ActBlue charges a transaction fee of 3.95%, but in perspective, Patreon charges 5%.

So why would they have an ActBlue account? Because it's *cheaper than Patreon*, not because they're "funneling money" anywhere. So they probably have both a Patreon and an ActBlue, but they'd direct you to ActBlue by preference since ActBlue doesn't take such a big chunk of the cash.

The reason it doesn't fund Republicans is that Republicans have their own, identical, payment-processor called "WinRed", which again is the same deal, a Patreon-style website but specifically for donating to conservative fund raisers.

(https://winred.com/)

BTW i lied when I said "identical". While ActBlue was set up as a non-profit organization, Republicans are never ones to miss a way to grift their followers of a buck, so when they made WinRed to compete with ActBlue, they made sure to register it as a for-profit corporation.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRed)

They also don't disclose their finances:



Additionally, since ActBlue is an literal non-profit they by definition don't have profits to even send to the DNC, even out of their 3.95% service fee. WinRed on the other hand, is a fully for-profit actually owned by the RNC apparently.

And they've been bullying rival conservative payment processors out of business:



Thanks for drawing my attention to this. The Republican version of ActBlue sounds like it's run by mafia bosses compared to the Democrat version.

While there are no plausible links between ActBlue and the DNC, their own actions show how this is not true of WinRed and the RNC, who have been actively trying to destroy OTHER conservative donation platforms, and demanding that all conservative donations be funneled through their proprietary for-profit payment processor.

EDIT, probably just the tip of the iceberg:

(https://www.balloon-juice.com/2019/11/01/impeachment-open-thread-subtle-as-a-rock-through-a-window/)



(https://americanindependent.com/gop-chairwoman-ronna-mcdaniel-corruption/)



(https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/trump-winred-kushner_n_5d27bcf8e4b0060b11e9cbf5?ri18n=true)



Oh right, all makes sense now. There's a family member of Trump involved. Trump doesn't give the first shit about literally anything unless there's some personal profit for himself in it, it makes sense that if he's adamant that people use the Winred platform there **had** to be some direct money funnel into his pocket involved, and explains why they're using mafia tactics to strong-arm other Republicans to exclusively use this over-priced platform vs the alternatives. It took a while to find the above, but the rest just tumbles out now:

(https://news.yahoo.com/concerns-mount-over-jared-kushners-role-in-gop-money-machine-090000260.html)



EDIT: sorry this got edited so much. At first I assumed WinRed was just the GOP version of ActBlue, but as I delved into it, I smelt the shit smell and had to work out where the stench was coming from. Pure greed it turns out.

For all I know, Win Red is just Act Blue trying to lure Republicans donors into a media honeypot.